MEIN LEBEN!

I had 400MSP left over on my US XBL account so I bought and am currently playing through Wolfenstein 3D on XBLA.  The leaderboards seem to be based on both score and time.  Since I enjoy exploring and killing everything (this was much more satisfying in Doom with the larger variety of weapons, monsters, and level architecture… oh yeah and the automap) I’m doing much better on the score front than the time front.  477000 or so for the first episode, surely half of that came from floor 10.  I don’t think any of my friends are playing the game so I don’t really have much incentive to sprint through the levels just to get my leaderboard ranking up.

It’s a lot smoother than the last time I played it.  To be fair the last time I played I was a poor gamer with a low-spec 486, which meant shareware episode only.  Now I’m getting to enjoy all of the annoyances features added to the full 6-episode version.  Zombies that make no noise to alert you to their presence until they’re firing on you, two keys needed to escape most levels.  Fortunately, the gamepad controls don’t hurt Wolf3D as much as they did Doom, since the game has far fewer weapons and slower turning.  Much lower difficulty in general, actually, even though I’m playing at “Bring ‘em On!”

Despite the fact that I love to complain about whatever I’m playing (this will be a theme) I’m enjoying myself and I’ll probably end up grinding my way through all 6 episodes.  Then, back to racing games and shoot’em ups!